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As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly file your dormant company accounts.
This still needs a person who signs their name to it.
Can you do it?
15 minutesto a draft.
1 hourto something you’d act on.
Cost, all in£0
Skill neededchat-fluent
Who has to check ita professional
What the alternative costsNo comparable UK filing cost is provided in the supplied sources.
If this goes wrong: the accounts can be rejected or filed incorrectly, while the directors remain responsible for putting the mistake right.
What to actually do
Hand it to a person
The route this page recommends
Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.
Use a tool built for this
Second choiceDo it yourself
The distant thirdA chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.
How to actually do it
- Open the GOV.UK pages for filing company accounts and dormant company accounts, and confirm that the company is a UK private company and that the relevant accounting period is the one ending on [accounting period end date].
- Gather the company number, registered office details, accounting period, director details, bank statements, invoices, loan records and any other transaction records for the period, then note whether there were any accounting transactions.
- Paste the gathered facts into the prompt and ask the chatbot to identify missing information, distinguish Companies House accounts from HMRC Corporation Tax obligations, and stop if dormant status is uncertain.
- Ask the chatbot to turn the official guidance and your supplied facts into a field-by-field completion checklist without inventing figures, dates or declarations.
- Open the official Companies House online filing service, enter the company number and filing period, and complete each field using your records and the checklist rather than copying any unverified answer from the chatbot.
- Compare every figure, company detail and declaration shown in the filing service with the source records, then ask a UK accountant to check the accounts if there are transactions, uncertainty about dormancy or any unusual balance.
- Submit the accounts yourself through the official service, save the confirmation and filing receipt, and separately check whether the company has any HMRC obligation that is outside this accounts filing.
Prompt
I need to prepare and file dormant company accounts for a UK private company with Companies House. This is not professional advice and you must not pretend to file anything or confirm compliance. Use only information I provide and current official GOV.UK or Companies House guidance available as at 2026-08-13. Ask me for the company number, accounting period, company type, whether the company traded or received income during the period, whether it had accounting transactions, and any relevant records. Do not invent figures, dates, transactions or declarations. First explain what I need to confirm about the company’s dormant status. Then produce: 1. a document and information checklist, 2. a step-by-step plan for using the official Companies House filing service, 3. a field-by-field checklist for the accounts and declarations, 4. warnings for anything that needs an accountant’s judgement, and 5. a final list of items I must personally check before submitting. Keep Companies House accounts separate from any Corporation Tax obligations to HMRC. If the company is not clearly eligible for dormant accounts, stop and tell me to ask a UK accountant.
Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.
What it gets wrong
- AI cannot log into Companies House, make the director declarations or take responsibility for the filing.
- AI cannot establish dormant status from incomplete or undisclosed company records.
- AI cannot reliably decide how unusual transactions, balances or accounting treatments should be handled without professional judgement.
- AI cannot transfer the directors’ legal responsibility for the accuracy and timeliness of the accounts.
- AI cannot replace an accountant when the company’s records do not clearly support dormant accounts.
What caps this at PARTLY: legal accountability, verification cost and stakes of error.
How we scored this
Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.
| Axis | Score (0–2) |
|---|---|
| Output | 1 |
| Inputs | 1 |
| Verification | 1 |
| Liability | 0 |
| Effort delta | 1 |
| Total | 4 / 10 |
The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.
FAQ
- Can ChatGPT file dormant company accounts for me?
- Partly. It can organise your records, explain the Companies House process and produce a checking list, but you or an accountable professional must enter, confirm and submit the filing. The directors remain responsible for the accounts.
- Can I file dormant company accounts myself?
- Usually, if the company’s status and records are straightforward and you can follow the current Companies House guidance. Check every field against your records, and ask a UK accountant about any transaction or uncertainty.
- What information does AI need to prepare dormant company accounts?
- Give it the company number, accounting period, company type, director details, bank and transaction records, and facts about whether the company traded or received income. Do not give it permission to invent missing figures or declarations.
- Is using AI to file dormant company accounts safe?
- It is useful for preparation, but it does not remove the risk or the directors’ responsibility. This is not professional advice; a serious or unclear case needs a UK accountant.
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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.
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